Have you checked it was uniquely strong? Just off the top of my head Taiwan and (especially) South Korea both grew very rapidly too, under âright-wingâ dictatorships and then (at least with SK, less sure about when Taiwan stopped growing rapidly) under democracy as well. I donât dispute the general point that the CCPs developmental record is very impressive, but thatâs still importantly different from âtheir system achieved things no one has ever achieved under another systemâ.
Youâre right, I should be more careful in wording; Iâve struck âuniquelyâ. China is unique in the sheer scale of such growth given the size of its population, but the Asian Tigers + Japan also had very high growth rates. I think the gist of my original point still stands: growth did not happen in these countries because the ruling parties just stopped doing really bad things, but, generally, the regimes (excluding Japan) engaged in extensive economic reform that is by no means a guaranteed success (cf. Russia).
Have you checked it was uniquely strong? Just off the top of my head Taiwan and (especially) South Korea both grew very rapidly too, under âright-wingâ dictatorships and then (at least with SK, less sure about when Taiwan stopped growing rapidly) under democracy as well. I donât dispute the general point that the CCPs developmental record is very impressive, but thatâs still importantly different from âtheir system achieved things no one has ever achieved under another systemâ.
Youâre right, I should be more careful in wording; Iâve struck âuniquelyâ. China is unique in the sheer scale of such growth given the size of its population, but the Asian Tigers + Japan also had very high growth rates. I think the gist of my original point still stands: growth did not happen in these countries because the ruling parties just stopped doing really bad things, but, generally, the regimes (excluding Japan) engaged in extensive economic reform that is by no means a guaranteed success (cf. Russia).